Hi, I've been looking at thickness data and Freesurfer, and had a
question about the process. I initially compared thickness in our two
groups on a node-by-node basis using:

 

mris_preproc --fsgd_file file_name --target average --hemi rh --meas
thickness --out rh.thickness.mgh

mri_surf2surf --hemi rh --s average --sval rh.thickness.mgh --fwhm 10
--tval rh.thick_smooth.mgh

mri_glmfit --y rh.thick_smooth.mgh --fsgd file_name doss --glmdir
average/glm/rh --surf average rh --C contrast.m

 

with the fsgd file containing inputs like:

 

Input name1 NC-male 31.34

etc.

 

(the number at the end being age)

 

I also tried running GLM on the average label thicknesses in the
parcellation stat files to see how similar the results would be. I did
this by reading the values in the ThickAvg column into SPSS, and using
group and gender as fixed factors with age as a covariate. Doing it this
way, several labels came up significant that contained few or no
significant nodes doing it the other way.

 

Since this was surprising, I was wondering if there was anything that
might be expected to cause this difference. For example, could there
somehow be a scaling factor applied to one analysis but not the other?

 

Thanks,

 

-Aaron-

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